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Colours In The Storm, November 29 – December 8, 2012, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Colours in the Storm is the musical by Jim Betts about the life – and mysterious death – of one of Canada’s best loved painters, Tom Thomson. Thomson’s landscapes of Algonquin Park - including "The West Wind", "The Jack Pine" and "Northern River" - are among the most famous paintings ever done in Canada. But Thomson is perhaps as famous for the controversy of his death as he is for the strength of his paintings. He died in mysterious circumstances in the waters of Canoe Lake, and in the 75 years since his death there has been endless speculation about …

Spring Awakening, November 27 – December 8, 2012, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This haunting and provocative rock-musical is a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in a daring fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock & roll. Winner of 8 TONY Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy, and passion that you will never forget.

Director: Greg Peterson

Choreographer: Robin Calvert

Musical Director: Michael Barber

Foodwork Or Foodplay? Men’S Domestic Cooking, Privilege And Leisure, Michelle Szabo

Publications and Scholarship

Market research documents a rising passion for cooking among men. Yet, some feminists argue that men see cooking as ‘leisure’ in part because they have distance from day-to-day care obligations. However, empirical research on men’s home cooking is still limited. This article investigates the relationship between cooking and leisure among 30 Canadian men with significant household cooking responsibilities. Drawing on interview, observational and diary data, and poststructural conceptualizations of leisure, I ask, to what extent do these men understand cooking as leisure and why? Opposing the notion that women’s cooking is ‘work’ and men’s, ‘leisure’, I find that these men …

Designing Experiences, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Central Park Tango, April 12 – 21, 2012, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Central Park Tango is based on the real life story of Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins from the Central Park Zoo who wish to have a family of their own. In this new musical we learn how Roy and Silo meet. We see how their relationship grows and how the penguin community around them challenges and reacts to their union. A penguin musical about the modern day family.

This work was developed as part of the Canadian Music Theatre Project.

Book by Robert Gontier. Music by Nicky Phillips. Lyrics by Robert Gontier & Nicky Phillips.

Director: Jim Betts …

Sweeney Todd, April 10 – 21, 2012, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

After fifteen years of exile, Benjamin Barker returns home as Sweeney Todd and resumes his barber trade. Sweeney Todd tries to revenge the loss of his wife and child by a corrupt judge with no success and instead becomes a mass murderer. Sweeney Todd is aided by a Mrs. Lovett who turns a tidy profit out of baking meat pies out of Todd’s victims.

Sweeney Todd is a pitch-black Victorian era comedy that earned Stephen Sondheim the 1979 Tony Award for Best Musical Features Music and Lyrics and is based on Christopher Bond’s 1973, “Sweeny Todd, the Demon Barber of …

Designers As Facilitators Of Change, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Oklahoma!, February 14 – 25, 2012, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This masterful first collaboration between Broadway luminaries Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, is considered the forerunner of Broadway’s Golden Age and with very good reason! Its sensational score is filled with songs that have become popular standards. Its simple character-based story about Laurey Williams’ dilemma choosing who will accompany her to the box social – the braggart cowboy Curly McLain or the compulsive farmhand Jud Fry – still compels contemporary audiences with its wholesome down-home feel-good humour. Set in 1906, against the backdrop of Indian Territory emerging as the state of Oklahoma, this glorious musical will inevitably have theatre …

Christian Knudsen Contributed The Essay, "Promiscuous Monks And Naughty Nuns: Poverty, Sex And Apostasy In Later Medieval England," In Poverty And Prosperity: The Rich And The Poor In The Middle Ages And Renaissance, Christian Knudsen

Books & Chapters

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